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This website offers a complete, searchable digital edition of la Fontaine's fables. I recommend it for courses in French...
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This website offers a complete, searchable digital edition of la Fontaine's fables. I recommend it for courses in French Phonetic, Intermediate/Advanced grammar, and 17th century Literature. The edition is highly reliable.

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La Cle des procedes litteraires is my main resource for literature courses. This is an encyclopedia of literary genres,...
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La Cle des procedes litteraires is my main resource for literature courses. This is an encyclopedia of literary genres, figures and ways of expression with examples from famous texts. I recommend it to advanced and graduate students when I assign an "explication de texte״. Since there are various ways of using this resource, I would recommend to choose "genres litteraires" to start exploring the site.

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I use Phono in a Phonology course in which the students learn phonetic transcription and how to describe pronunciation and...
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I use Phono in a Phonology course in which the students learn phonetic transcription and how to describe pronunciation and variation among French-speaking peoples. The students are assigned 5-6 phonetic phenomena to listen to each week. Phono offers the possibility to compare single sounds as they are pronunced in standard and quebecois French. I would recommend using Phono in class first, before assigning it as homework. It should also be introduced in the course after the students have received a good training in phonetic transcription and description.Technical Remarks:The website requires using SIL fonts but these will work best with Explorer on PC and Mac. Some fonts do not appear correctly with Mac running Netscape.

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I prepare the students to take the DELF and DALF exams using the samples that this website offers. These are actual exams...
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I prepare the students to take the DELF and DALF exams using the samples that this website offers. These are actual exams that come with guidelines. Teachers will find samples for all units, oral and written. These can be used as individual assignments (e.g. composition topics), self-examinations, in-class activities or review exercises. I find particularly useful to expose the students to the reading comprehension tests so that they are prepared to the type of questions they will be asked.Technical Remarks:The website is very simple to use.

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I have been using WebCape as a placement as well as an assessment tool in Intermediate French for the past two years. The...
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I have been using WebCape as a placement as well as an assessment tool in Intermediate French for the past two years. The students take it during the first week of the semester (the minimum to enroll in 2nd year is 300) then at the end of the semester before the final exam. In many cases the test will show a difference of as much as 60-75 points for a 5 hour/week semester course. In students who take less than 5 hours of French per week, the score will increase by 30-60. Students take the test in the language lab and have their scores sent to them and to me by email or they bring a printed copy of their results to me. They take it when they return after winter or summer break even if they have taken it at the end of the previous semester because there is usually a slight difference after the students have not been exposed to the language for several weeks. WebCape appears to be an excellent assessment tool, not only for the students themselves who can keep track of their progress, but for instructors as well who can use it to evaluate their teaching effectiveness.I have seen a few puzzling cases in which the scores did not at all reflect a student's proficiency either by being too low or too high. But these are exceptions and in general I find that the test gives a quantitative equivalent of what an oral proficiency interview would tell me about a student's level.

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Excellent resource for individualized, self-paced first and second year programs. Teachers can also use it in class for...
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Excellent resource for individualized, self-paced first and second year programs. Teachers can also use it in class for reviewing before a test. The website offers a wealth of progressive exercises in the form of short quizzes with feedback on correct and wrong answers. Navigation is very easy from one level to another. Most exercises are geared toward communication and based on various topics or situations such as writing postcards, understanding a letter, buying a newspaper, etc. All grammatical exercises (conjugation, pronouns, word order, etc) are contextualized and require attention to slight changes in the content of the sentences. Technical Remarks: No special function needed except activation of javascript in the browser.

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This online version of the OLF famous bilingual technical dictionary (from Quebec) is an important resource for courses...
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This online version of the OLF famous bilingual technical dictionary (from Quebec) is an important resource for courses dealing with technical or specialized vocabulary. I use it mainly in advanced and graduate courses in translation and multimedia resources. One may search for words in English or in French. The search engine retrieves the fields or domains of application of the words, provides translations, closely related words and "expressions to be avoided" - which are often literal translations. Comments on usage show how French Canadian usage differs from metropolitan French usage. For an example see the discussion on "mel" and "courriel״.

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Danielle Trudeau
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Feb 12, 2002

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